Hi William,

Do the following in your dsm.sys file:

* File selection for incremental backup (bottom-up)
Inclexcl                /usr/lpp/adsm/bin/inex.lst

The file inex.lst contains all the files to be included or excluded.

Regards,

Jerry Caupain
AIX/ADSM System administrator

William Wang wrote:
>
> Dear ADSMers,
> I installed ADSM 3.1.20 in my AIX 43P which is running AIX 4.2.1. When I
> add the following two lines into /usr/lpp/adsm/bin/dsm.sys, The exclude
> does not work at all. What I want to do is exclude all of the machine,
> and then I can use include to perform a incremental backup. Would you
> please kindly tell me, how can I use exclude?
>
> exclude /*
> exclude /.../*
>
> Thanks in advance!
> William Wang